breastfed baby will not accept a bottle

My 20 wk old ds will no longer take formula or breast milk from a bottle. my dh very occasionally gave a bottle to give me a break but ds gets in a state and refuses, I've tried avent and tommy tippee teats.....can anybody help!?

I would give up tbh. I was never able to get dd2 or dd3 to take a bottle. Just hang in there with the breastfeeding. You will be starting on solids soonish if you ahven't already and then you do get a bit of a break as someone else can do that. Then it's on to cups - i found the Tommee Tippee one with the soft spout to be the best for us.

Give up. I literally wasted loads of money trying every type of bottle and teat going. DD1 had none of it. In the end, I did as my HV suggested, and waited until she weaned and gave her milk in a cup. She took that okay.

Some babies just don't like the bottle, and as I found out with DD2, some babies just don't like the boob! There's no changing them!!

I think the Natural Action Latex Nipple (older baby) 2pk 3mths+ should be the one? You might have to buy a bottle and liner, but I think they also sell on ebay. It is a bit of a faff, but it did the trick for both of mine, and friends dc too. hth

We had this problem with both our DDs. DD1 - I had very band mastitis at 5 weeks due to a tongue tie issue so DD1 had only EBM for 2 weeks whilst I recovered and we sorted her tongue out and I was so relieved not to be expressing that she didn't have a bottle for about 10 weeks. The only way we were able to get a bottle into her (and DD2) was by giving them a bottle with water in to play with. When they worked out how to suck on it (without pressure from me/DH or the stress from them crying from hunger and frustration) they were fine (took about a week). Then they were happy to take a bottle.

With DD2 (9 months), she is always happier to have EBM if she has seen me express. I then let her have a little bit of freshly expressed milk from the bottle, then she is much happier to have the bottle later on when she needs it.